Checkout.com

Staff Software Engineer - Vault

London, UK
AWS SQL API
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Description
We're Checkout.com 

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Binance, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re number 9 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor’s list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. So, join us to build tomorrow, today.

Staff Software Engineer at Checkout.com

As a Staff Engineer at Checkout.com in the Vault team, you'll be providing expert technical leadership in the design of our cloud-based platform. You'll help define the standards for our distributed architecture and work together with product and engineering leadership to define our technical and product roadmap. You're an expert in distributed systems and will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams.

The Vault Team is leading the charge to keep our customers’ data safe and abstract the complexities of compliance regulation away. Starting from payment information to minimise the PCI burden to keep the data accurate and up to date. Vault plays a meaningful role in the Checkout.com value proposition both by simplifying our merchant’s security requirements and helping optimise their payment processing performance.

About You

    • Expert level experience in designing and managing large, scalable, high throughput, highly available and fault-tolerant systems
    • Expert level experience in Cloud-based application development (we use AWS)
    • Strong understanding of NoSQL database scaling and data modelling
    • Solid understanding and appreciation for software design and architecture
    • Enthusiastic about delivery and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment
    • Desire to work on an exciting product suite within a fast scaling technical business
    • Excellent practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles
    • Solid understanding of HTTP and RESTful design
    • Experience with SQL and NoSQL
    • Experience with Unit and Integration testing
    • Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment workflows
    • Solid experience in Software Development, Design, and Architecture
    • Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

What You'll Be Doing

    • Working as part of a multi-functional product team to develop solutions
    • Taking ownership for and leading on technical and architectural decisions
    • Gathering requirements and scoping out projects with the rest of the team
    • Mentoring and developing other members of the team
    • Actively promoting innovative thinking, designing processes that encourage more ideation
    • Acting as a filter balancing risk and reward in measurable ways
    • Driving continuous improvement in the team
What we stand for
At Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people.
 
#Aspire
We supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences.
 
#Excel
We don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards.
 
#Unite
We're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together.
 
Want to see us in action?
 
 
More about Checkout.com
Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1800 people across 19 international offices.
 
We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. 
We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

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